| Buddleja domingensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Buddlejaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. domingensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja domingensis Urb. |
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Buddleja domingensis is a species endemic to the uplands of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, growing in rocky, limestone ravines, along forest edges and roadsides; it was first described and named by Ignatz Urban in 1908.[1][2]
B. domingensis is a dioecious or possibly trioecious shrub or small tree 2 – 6 m high, with subquadrangular, lanate young branches bearing leaves with petioles 1 - 2 cm long, membranaceous ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate 13 – 24 cm long by 3 – 8 cm wide, tomentose to glabrescent above, lanate below. The yellow inflorescences are 10 - 27 cm long, with one or rarely two orders of branches, comprising heads 1.5 - 2.5 cm in diameter, each with 20 - 50 flowers, borne in leafy-bracted racemes; the corolla tubes are 3 – 3.5 mm long.[2]
The species is not known to be in cultivation.